Carriage-body



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

0. MORRILL. CARRIAGE BODY.

No. 324,833. Patented Aug. 11, 1885...

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oscoon MORRILL, OF SALISBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

CARRIAGE-BODY.

FEPECEFICATIQIIforming part of Letters Patent No. 324,333, dated August 11, 1885.

Application filed April 9, 1885. (No model.)

T0 or whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, O'seoon MoRmLL, of Salisbury, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carriage-Bodies, which will, in connection with the accompanying drawings, be hereinafter fully described, and specifically defined in the appended claim.

This invention hasfor its object an improvement in carriagebodies, which invention consists in a section fitted in the cut-down opening in the side panel,which facilitates ingress to and egress from the body, said section being so hinged to the body as to admit of its being moved, on its hinge-pivot, in a vertical plane when it is desired to open the cut-down space for the purposes named, such vertical move ment of the hinged section being practical when a horizontal movement thereof would be impossible by reason of the obstacle which the side bars present.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a jump-seat body with my invention thereto applied, both seats being shown as in position for use. Fig. 2 isaview like the first, except that but one seat is in.

position for use, and a portion of the top is omitted. Fig. 3 shows my invention as applied to a one-seated open-buggy body. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detached view showingaportion of the body and.hinged section as united, and with the hinged section as turned up.

In these views, a or represent the side panels of the body. 1) represents the rear or jumping seat, and c the front or turn-down seat. d 01 represent the front standards of the turn-down top, and e e represent the sections which are fitted into the cut-down openings in panels a, and which are secured by hinges f to said panels, the pivot g of the hinges being arranged at the top line of the panel, as shown.

The body may be of any desired form, pat tern, or style, and with or without a top, and either a turn-down or canopy top may be employed, and the seats may be of any kind or pattern, and either permanently in'position, as shown in Fig. 3, or of the well; known jump and turn-down kind, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

It being necessary when my invention is employed upon a carriage having either a canopy top or turn-down top that the front standards or front bow of the top be so arranged as to be either inside or outside the path of the section 0 when the same is turned up, and the front seat, if fixed in position, must be of such width as not to extend within the path of the hinged sections.

In Fig. 1 the hinged section e is shown by dotted lines as turned forward, and in Fig. 3 it is shown by solid lines as turned up, and resting against the dasher by the engagement therewith of a stop on the section.

WVhen used with singleseat bodies having high panels, this'seetion facilitates ingress and egress as effectually as would a full-height door in a top carriage, and when used with a jump-seat carriage having high side panels it obviates the necessity of turning forward the front seat when the occupants of the rear seat enter or leave the carriage, and when therear seat is jumped forward to serve as the sole seat of the vehicle, this section closes the cut-down space and renders the panel complete in appearance.

I am aware of United States Patent No. 125,817, dated April 16, 1872, and l disclaim the invention therein described and claimed, my invention consisting in a removable section of the side panel that is less in depth than is the panel, and which is hinged at its front endand top edge, thus rendering it feas ible to employ my invention in connection with carriagebodies the sides of which are formed with a transverse or vertical curve, while in said reference the entire panel is sub- .divided and the section is pivoted at its front lower corner,which could only be available in bodies the sides of which are a true vertical plane.

I claim as my invention The combination, with a carriagebody having cut-down side panels, of sections fitting in and corresponding to said cut-down spaces and pivoted at their front upper corner and arranged to be opened and closed independently each of the other, substantially as specified.

OSGOOD MORRILL.

WVitnesses:

T. W. PORTER, EUGENE HUMPHREY. 

